Policy · 117th Congress
As COVID-19 cases rise, CDC urges masks indoors, including schools
“Mask mandates for more command and control will not build trust — only resentment.
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Senate bill leaves military sexual assault debate unsettled
Inhofe has opposed removing officers in the chain of command from any prosecution decisions. Reed did not reply to a request for comment.
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Senate bill would require women to register for the draft
The House plans to mark up its version next week, and it appears more likely than not that the panel and the House will follow suit on the registration issue. Rep.
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Senate committee proposes big Pentagon funding boost
Special Operations Command, for instance, would get $200 million not requested by the president for items on its unfunded list.
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Senate panel adopts Gillibrand’s military justice proposal
Such decisions are now made by a handful of generals and admirals in the chain of command.
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House Republicans to offer new National Guard supplemental bill
Two senior House Republican appropriators plan to file legislation Friday that would pay back the National Guard the nearly half-billion dollars it cost to help defend the Capitol earlier this year, a
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Pentagon offered to pay National Guard’s Capitol security costs
Spending fracas In addition to the Womack-Calvert bill, the House in May passed a $1.9 billion supplemental spending measure that includes money for the Capitol Police, $521 million for the Guard
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House spending panel frets over future in Afghanistan
House lawmakers charged with setting the Pentagon’s budget are concerned about the fallout from the nearly complete U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the implications for U.S. security
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Lawmakers pan Biden’s first Space Force budget
In the report accompanying the fiscal 2022 defense appropriations bill, members of the House Appropriations Committee expressed concern and frustration over the lack of a coordinated strategy in
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Senate sets NDAA markups for mid-July
the Armed Services Committee’s Personnel panel, has spearheaded legislation that would take decisions on whether to prosecute serious cases, not just those involving sexual assault, out of the chain of command
Policy · 117th Congress
Military sexual assault debate broadens to tackle racial inequities
But a supermajority in the Senate and seemingly a majority of the House want to change the system for all major crimes.
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Biden’s cyber warning to Russia may have to be backed by action
Jim Langevin, D-R.I., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems. “But he is now on notice.”
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Military brass resists big changes to prosecution decisions
Gillibrand’s bill, and a similar one to be introduced in the House on Wednesday, would require that decisions on prosecuting most major crimes in the military — including sexual assault but also
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Democrats promise to do it all despite dissension in the ranks
‘Legitimacy and authenticity’ House Democratic Conference Chair Hakeem Jeffries echoed Schumer’s point and said Democratic messaging came straight from Biden.
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Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, as Biden signs bill
“We are gathered here in a house built by enslaved people. We are footsteps away from where President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Democrats’ backroom clashes over military justice erupt onto Senate floor
Support for her bill and a comparable one in the House by California Democrat Jackie Speier swelled after last April’s killing at Fort Hood, Texas, of 20-year-old Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén.
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Divide over scope of military’s extremism problem impedes culture, policy changes
Indeed, two senior military officials recently told lawmakers there were “zero” extremists under their command.
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Capitol Police faced equipment shortage during Jan. 6 attack
The department’s official timeline shows that the final CDU plan “indicates that officers will not independently employ force without command authorization unless exigent circumstances justify immediate
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Capitol insurrection forces military’s extremism problem out of the shadows
While in the military in California, Leek and two other neo-Nazis he met while in training formed a skinhead gang, rented a house together and began working to recruit other active-duty servicemembers.
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As debate on security ramps up, Capitol Police push back on IG
“So in other words, if those pipe bombs were intended to be a diversion, plainly speaking, it worked,” Bolton told the House Administration Committee.